Lois Jones, President

The Friday Morning Music Club, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

For classical musicians and music lovers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

For archives of news about members posted on this website beginning in October 2002, please click here.

MEMBER NEWS PUBLISHED ON THIS WEB SITE IN MAY 2004:

• Carmina, an early music vocal ensemble directed by FMMC harpsichordist Vera Kochanowsky, will present a program at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda on Friday, May 21 at 8pm, entitled "Heinrich Schuetz and his Contemporaries." Joining Carmina will be the excellent Washington area Baroque instrumental group, Ensemble Gaudior. Tickets are $12 at the door. For more information go to www.cedarone.org or call 301-493-8300.
   
• The final program for the Washington Symphonic Brass 2003-2004 concert season, called "Wind and Song," will take place on the following dates:
  • Wednesday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m.; St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Annapolis, MD.
  • Sunday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m.; Saint Luke Catholic Church, McLean, VA.
  • Sunday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m.; National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC
  Program includes Phil Snedecor's transcription of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" for full brass ensemble and 4 percussionists. Also on the program are Phil's arrangement of the Chick Corea/Al Jarreau classic "Spain" with horn solos by Marty Hackleman and trumpet "scat singing" by Phil himself; a setting of "O Magnum Mysterium" by Morton Lauridsen; "Che Gelida Manina" from La Boheme of Puccini played by Marty Hackleman; the Benedictus and the Gloria from Missa Brevis by Washington's own Joseph McIntyre; and Eric Ewazen's romantically inspired "Symphony in Brass."
   
• JERRY SCHWARZ, clarinet; NICHOLAS FOBE, viola; and ROBERT ROSEN, piano, will perform the Serenade, Opus 24, by Emil Hartmann (1836-1898) on Thursday, June 17 at 7:30 p.m., as part of a free concert sponsored by the Southwest Chamber Players at Saint Augustine's Episcopal Church, Maine Ave. and Sixth Street, SW (Metro: Waterfront-SEU). The program will also include Three Romances for clarinet and piano by Schumann and Beethoven's Septet, Opus 20.